Posted on 07/31/2008 8:12:21 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
This is just another stupid stunt that does nothing to solve the SPENDING problem.
A draft order states that pay would be cut for about 200,000 state workers to the federal hourly minimum wage of $6.55 until a budget is signed.After the budget is signed, workers would receive their full pay for all the time they worked at the minimum wage.
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The criminal part is that as soon as there a new budget they get all their back pay.
They should lose it all!!!
Jack OConnell Superintendent of Public Instruction is not going to implement Arnold’s order either. Says no retired annuitants or student assistants need not worry about losing their job either.
Let’s do a lot more cutting especially the federal government.
Doubt it? I am thinking he is an elected official.
I would believe him to be sincere if he cut his pay to min wage. This was only for show.
Oh! You are SO RIGHT!!!
I dont think he even receives a paycheck.
Arnold collects zero salary.
And the chickens come home to roost.
I know the politicians in Sacramento drool over this prospect -- but I don't know if they really need to do this. They've run an effective 'end around' over the past few years by coming up with new 'fees' for almost anything... Who needs to raise taxes when you can implement/raise fees by fiat.
In addition, I believe Sacramento really wants the gasoline prices to continue to increase. This spike over the past two years has been an unexpected for those folks in the Capitol who couldn't balance a budget if their lives dependent on it. Because the gas tax includes a sales tax that is a percentage of the gasoline price per gallon - Sacramento has gotten a good boost to their revenue. They'll block off-shore drilling, or anything, that might drive the gas prices down...
Good thing that we're not relying on the temporal - because I don't see digging out of this financial hole with the leaders we have (and given that 'we've' voted them in -- we get what we deserve)...
California gives go-ahead to stem-cell research Proposition 71 provides $3 billion in state funding over next decade......from 2004
25 of the 32,279 proposed “cuts” were to the Sierra Nevada Conservancy (and 61 to the Coastal Commission).
Pretty disgusting that they *have* 25 employees, IMO.
If the legislature democrats would put down the crack pipe and start working for the peoel insead of trying to figure out ways to fleece the people, or to screw the population out of every civil right they have. But instead this bunch of braindead wates of oxygen want to teach communism in the schools. They want the students to knwo state is mother and state is father. When the people do not need the state at all.
The whole bunch (the entire state government, every last state government employee, including teachers, professors and secratarys and everyother position.)should be thrown out and sent to Siberia.
I’m being nice today. LOL
Pelosi will easily make this happen if Obama wins, or will swap it for offshore drilling if McCain wins.
That's why the CA Rats are doing nothing to resolve this. The fix is in!
I checked the sales tax on Gas, and California's gasoline consumption, and came up with ~$2 billion windfall to California's revenue due to the $2/gallon spike we've seen since the Dems took control of Congress:
With a 6% Sales Tax + a 1.25% County Tax (or a cumulative 7.25% tax that stays within the state) on gasoline sales - California is raking in the dough with this $2/gallon spike that's occurred since the Dems took control of Congress. In 2007 California consumed 15.7 billion gallons of gasoline, so we're talking an added ~ $2 billion boon (7.25% x $2/gallon x 15.7 billion gallons) to Sacramento's budget - that the Dems probably didn't anticipate.
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